Michael Gove has been sacked and called a “snake” by Downing Street as the constitutional crisis – caused by a prime minister unwilling to face reality – deepens. The rate of resignations from Boris Johnson’s government has not abated with more than 50 ministers – including at least five secretaries of state – abandoning the […]
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Ian Blackford has slammed Sir Keir Starmer for “running scared of the Tories” and “offering no real change at all” after the Labour leader ruled out the UK rejoining the European Union single market or customs union under a Labour government. Starmer set out a five-point plan that he claims will “make Brexit work” by […]
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Anger is growing at the government’s failure to engage in talks to avoid the UK’s biggest rail strikes in three decades. Transport secretary Grant Shapps is insistent that it is not the role of the government to negotiate rail workers’ pay and working conditions with unions. Shapps dismissed claims the government wants the strikes to […]
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Julian Assange can be extradited to the US after UK home secretary Priti Patel approved the request. Wikileaks – the organisation founded by Assange – immediately confirmed it will appeal against the decision, calling it a “dark day” for British democracy and press freedom. Assange, who is Australian, is being held in London’s maximum security […]
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Boris Johnson’s ethics adviser Lord Christopher Geidt has resigned because the prime minister put him in an “impossible and odious position”. Geidt’s resignation letter states Johnson proposed violating the ministerial code and that he had been on the brink of resigning as the prime minister’s ethic’s adviser over the law-breaking in Downing Street during Partygate. […]
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Boris Johnson is claiming his legislation to scrap the Northern Ireland protocol and break international law is in fact “relatively trivial” changes. The prime minister is under renewed fire from his own backbenches with Tory MPs accusing Johnson of “damaging the UK and everything the Conservatives stand for” – just a week after Johnson survived […]
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Prince Charles has criticised the UK government’s policy to deport migrants to Rwanda as “appalling” while the high court rejected a legal challenge against the plan. The Prince of Wales is reported to be “particularly frustrated at Boris Johnson’s asylum policy” which was given the green light by the high court who ruled on Friday […]
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Rishi Sunak has emphatically denied the timing of his £15 billion emergency package to help households battling with the cost of living crisis has anything to do with yesterday’s publication of the Sue Gray report. The chancellor insisted the timing of today’s (May 26) announcement “is because we now have more clarity about what is […]
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Conservative MPs have voted for a controversial Northern Ireland legacy bill despite staunch opposition from all Northern Ireland political parties. Protests against the bill were held in Belfast, Derry and London with families of victims of the Troubles telling the UK prime minister the government’s proposed legislation is “an affront to all modern standards of […]
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The boss of energy giant E.ON has warned that four-in-ten households in the UK are facing fuel poverty if the government fails to act in the face of soaring energy bills. Michael Lewis, the CEO of E.ON UK told the BBC the government must intervene immediately with around 12.5% of its customers already struggling to […]
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